Re: "updatetool.exe has stopped working"
@puzzlezaddict Hi there! I have gotten error after error and even changed the administrator in System32 ready to delete (rename) about 5 .dll files and add in newer updates .dll files of the same name... I used this website instructions and watched a video a few times over before following along haha https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/windows-7-how-to-delete-files-protected-by-trustedinstaller/ )
1st error: MSVCP140.dll is missing
So my system wasn't finding updates so I went directly to Windows to do it. (since the 11th I have downloaded THE SAME set of updates MULTIPLE times...thinking if is ALREADY downloaded them correctly, or at ALL, they wouldn't find I needed them...frustrating.
2nd error after this was the 0xc000007b 'application unable to start'
I searched and searched until I found this simply goes to a KB2919355 update that IS HAPPENING but my system isn't using it...
I come to find that IT SEEMS to be a VC++ issue that the redistribables are NOT happening and I searched THAT and it took me BACK to the issue with these .dll files but NOT the one I mentioned in the error above.
I have a brother who has his masters in communication systems and a son with a computer engineering degree and they both reply to take it to geek squad and just backup everything before going in, and upgrade to Windows 10. I have 8.1 currently and I REALLY don't want to do that. UGH... I am afraid after changing the System32 that I did SOMETHING as it DID wipe out my security saved logins as well as when I went to login today after stepping away from the whole fiasco yesterday that it was telling me windows couldn't start and to try later then when I clicked on OK it said something about where to find my KEY for Windows. I was like WTF...soooo yeahhhh... If you KNOW PCs and any of this sounds remotely familiar...advice?? It just seems like I need some outdated files and its not grabbing them on the update?? Also, I play SIMS 4 on XB1 and decided to buy for PC with the sale happening and Origin won't install which is what started me down this rabbit hole... I have not turned this PC on since exactly a year ago so it has set for a year and not been plugged in or used as its a desktop and I have used my laptop. I am open to utilizing TeamViewer...which is what my son and brother looked at things quickly with.
1st error: MSVCP140.dll is missing
So my system wasn't finding updates so I went directly to Windows to do it. (since the 11th I have downloaded THE SAME set of updates MULTIPLE times...thinking if is ALREADY downloaded them correctly, or at ALL, they wouldn't find I needed them...frustrating.
2nd error after this was the 0xc000007b 'application unable to start'
I searched and searched until I found this simply goes to a KB2919355 update that IS HAPPENING but my system isn't using it...
I come to find that IT SEEMS to be a VC++ issue that the redistribables are NOT happening and I searched THAT and it took me BACK to the issue with these .dll files but NOT the one I mentioned in the error above.
I have a brother who has his masters in communication systems and a son with a computer engineering degree and they both reply to take it to geek squad and just backup everything before going in, and upgrade to Windows 10. I have 8.1 currently and I REALLY don't want to do that. UGH... I am afraid after changing the System32 that I did SOMETHING as it DID wipe out my security saved logins as well as when I went to login today after stepping away from the whole fiasco yesterday that it was telling me windows couldn't start and to try later then when I clicked on OK it said something about where to find my KEY for Windows. I was like WTF...soooo yeahhhh... If you KNOW PCs and any of this sounds remotely familiar...advice?? It just seems like I need some outdated files and its not grabbing them on the update?? Also, I play SIMS 4 on XB1 and decided to buy for PC with the sale happening and Origin won't install which is what started me down this rabbit hole... I have not turned this PC on since exactly a year ago so it has set for a year and not been plugged in or used as its a desktop and I have used my laptop. I am open to utilizing TeamViewer...which is what my son and brother looked at things quickly with.